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Beck for Fawcett Publications, Captain Marvel was an ingeniously simple premise. Captain Thunder, whose name was derived from Captain Marvel's original moniker, was a thinly veiled pastiche of Marveldown to his similar costume, his young alter ego named 'Willie Fawcett' (a reference to Fawcett Comics), and a magic word ('Thunder'), which was an acronym for seven entities and their respective powers. Captain Marvel was among the most popular comic-book superheroes of the 1940s.
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